Launches: Prodigy V-XIII

Customers:

• None

Mission Objectives:

1. Reach orbit around Kerbin
2. Perform one orbit
3. Deorbit and return safely to Kerbin

​This is another flight qualifcation mission to test the two-stage crewed rocket.

Year 3, Day 138: Prodigy V

The upper stage failed to reach a suborbital trajectory and the ship crashed into the ocean.

Year 3, Day 161: Prodigy VI

Another failure to reach a suborbital trajectory.

Year 3, Day 184: Prodigy VII

Year 3, Day 207: Prodigy VIII

Prodigy VIII Was able to reach space, but the upper stage failed to perform its second burn.

Year 3, Day 230: Prodigy IX

Year 3, Day 299: Prodigy X

The capsule was successfully placed into a suborbital trajectory, but its computers failed to circularize.

Year 3, Day 309: Prodigy XI

The glitch with the service module computers was still not resolved.

Year 3, Day 322: Prodigy XII

A change in the upper stage's second burn resulted it in it being placed on a de-orbit trajectory. The service module computer successfully calculated a circularization burn, but it would have been inside the atmosphere.
While this was the most successful mission to date, it was still a failure.

Year 3, Day 345: Prodigy XIII

The upper stage performs a second burn, remaining suborbital, and is then jettisoned.

Finally, the capsule performs its circularization burn to place it into a stable orbit.

After completing a full orbit, the capsule re-orients, performs its de-orbit burn, and jettisons the service module.

The capsule re-entering in front of Mun.

The capsule was successfully recovered in the ocean.